Buchet History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

The name Buchet originated with the Anglo-Saxon tribes that once ruled Britain. It is derived from the baptismal name Buchard, a variant of Burchard.

Early Origins of the Buchet family

The surname Buchet was first found in Lincolnshire, where they held a family seat from ancient times.

Early History of the Buchet family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Buchet research. Another 219 words (16 lines of text) covering the years 1150, 1207, 1273, 1500, 1547, 1669, 1689 and 1748 are included under the topic Early Buchet History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Buchet Spelling Variations

One relatively recent invention that did much to standardize English spelling was the printing press. However, before its invention even the most literate people recorded their names according to sound rather than spelling. The spelling variations under which the name Buchet has appeared include Bockett, Bocket, Bocard, Bocardi, Bochard, Bockard, Bokett, Bucard, Buchard, Bucket and many more.

Early Notables of the Buchet family

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Buchet Ranking

In France, the name Buchet is the 2,137^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,970 people with that name. 1

Buchet migration to the United States +

At this time, the shores of the New World beckoned many English families that felt that the social climate in England was oppressive and lacked opportunity for change. Thousands left England at great expense in ships that were overcrowded and full of disease. A great portion of these settlers never survived the journey and even a greater number arrived sick, starving, and without a penny. The survivors, however, were often greeted with greater opportunity than they could have experienced back home. These English settlers made significant contributions to those colonies that would eventually become the United States and Canada. An examination of early immigration records and passenger ship lists revealed that people bearing the name Buchet arrived in North America very early:

Buchet Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Louis A Buchet, who arrived in New Orleans, La in 1813 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Buchet (post 1700) +

Jacques Bonaventure Buchet, French Brigadier General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 3

Citations +

http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, February 11) Jacques Buchet. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html